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J. A. GHARNLEY.

ORNAMENTAL WIRE.

Patented Feb."7,188Z

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NITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES A. GHARNLEY, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

ORNAMENTAL WIRE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 253,184, dated February7, 1882,

Application filed January 19, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, James A. OHARNLEY, ofProvidence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and usefulOrnamental Wire; and I do hereby declare that the followingspecification, taken in connection with the drawings, making a part ofthe same, is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Figure 1 shows a piece of wire ornamented a portion of its length. Fig.2 is an enlarged section of the same. Fig. 3 is an end view of same.Fig. 4 is a piece of wire ornamented a portion of its-length withanother design. Fig. 5 is a section of same enlarged. Fig. 6 is an endview of same. Fig. 7 is a side elevation of a pair of die-rolls providedwith the design, cut spirally-thereon, for ornamenting the wire betweenthem.

The object of my invention is to produce a wire suitable for making orornamentingjewelry and fancy articles; and it consists in a new articleof manufacture, as hereinafter described.

Plain gilt or plated wire has, I am aware, been used for the purposesabove mentioned.

In my invention I produce a wire upon the exterior of which is engraved,cut, or stamped, in a cylindrical direction around it, any suitabledesign, the wire having been previously drawn in the usual way, andsubsequently plated, if desired. Wire has never before been ornamentedin this manner,owing to the impracticability of engraving it by hand andthe want of suitable machinery.

In producing my improved wire I first drawitintheusualway,(A,Figs.1and4,)afterwhich itis cutinto suitable lengthsand straightened. I then subject it to the action of two tine dierollsby passing it while perfectly straight longitudinall y through them,both of said rolls rotating in the same direction. These rolls rotatingin the same direction will be found to hold and turn the wire, and atthe same time engrave, cut, or stamp upon its exterior surface, as itpasses through them, the same design or ornamentation which has beenpreviously out upon the rolls, as shown at B, Figs. 1 to 6, inclusive.The rolls are adjusted with reference to each other according to thesize of the wire to be introduced. The end of the wire is by the aid ofpinchers forced in between the two rolls,having the design cut spirallythereon, after which, upon motion being imparted thereto, as described,it will be found that their engraved surfaces will cut or indent asimilar design in a cylindrical direction continuously over and upon theentire surface of the wire while being fed in a longitudinal direction,(see Fig. 7,) which I believe has not heretofore been accomplished inthe history of this art. As the spirally-engraved rolls and mechanismused in connection therewith constitute an invention for which I intendto apply for Letters Patent, a further description thereof isunnecessary here.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

As a new article of manufacture, a flexible wire having engraved ordepressed upon its exterior surface any suitable design orornamentation, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

JAMES A. OHARNLEY.

Witnesses:

WALTER B. VINCENT, G. M. CARPENTER, Jr.

